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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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Author of VESUVIUS (summer 2025 from @PeachtreeTeen ). Writer of messy boys in love. MLIS. They/them. Rep: @AnnaliseErrico 🌋

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@cassbeewrites

cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

11 months

I’M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!🌙 VESUVIUS, my queer YA Historical Fantasy full of hurt & healing, found its forever-home with @PeachtreeTeen —my dream imprint! Thank you for loving Felix and Loren. Thank you for making them real. Summer 2025 will have an explosive fallout🌋

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@cassbeewrites

cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

remember, a first draft doesn’t have to be perfect! except for mine. mine must be flawless or I might as well quit. I am the only one this applies to.

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Idea to replace Twitter: we all get added to the same Google Doc and see what happens

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Everyone romanticizes having a large personal library, but one day, you'll move houses. One day, you'll be tasked with hauling those books up and down flights of stairs. And on that day, the romance ends.

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friend: hey, any book recs? me: well, this one ruined my life and emotionally scarred me friend: oh I’ll steer clear then me: …you misunderstand

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A fanfic I’ve followed since 2021 just posted its final chapter, which is 80k words long and brings the total length to 430k+. Three years of labor, written for free, out of passion. This is why fanfic will never be beat.

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the sluttiest thing a character can do is have a nemesis. to loathe them. to be forced to work together. to come to learn them. to have their feelings shift. to have that moment of “oh. OH.” to question all they know. to shove them against the wall adn—

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well, my 16-year-old self put the guys from BBC Merlin on my first debit card and that’s a fact that will haunt me forever

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What’s a photo of your debit card that serves cunt?

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“this character is problematic. he killed someone” yeah? and? he’s fictional, he’s a vampire, he’s gay, and he looked hot doing it. next

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If you’re a library and on your “banned books” display, you choose to feature H*rry P*tter when that space could be occupied by one of the recently banned queer or BIPOC books, what message do you think that sends?

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weird that I’m expected to “do work” to “buy essentials” to “survive” when I’m busy thinking about my fictional characters kissing and holding each other

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bro are you okay? you keep gazing at the antagonist with newfound wonder while his strangely elegant hands tend to your wounds with care you’ve never before known

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I wish publishers would sell big posters of book covers the way you can buy movie posters

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publicly calling for an end to buzzfeed journalism. imagine missing the point of the hunger games this badly

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Everyone telling me to hire movers: Venmo me $5 so I can afford to. Otherwise leave me and my stubbornness and aching back alone 😭

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H*P, and I cannot emphasize this enough, does’t need any additional platforming. Period. Do you know who does? BIPOC & queer authors who face violence in a time where book bans disproportionately attack them. If you can’t understand that, what are you doing in the library space?

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You mean to tell me that this protagonist is going to spend 400+ pages detailing abuse and oppression in the world’s system, but when the villain suggests, idk, burning it down, the protag goes “nah, that’d make me as bad as them. we better keep it”?

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You know when a character makes a joke at the start of the book, then repeats that same line at the end—except this time, it’s gut-wrenching? Authors are so evil for that.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

Enemies-to-lovers only works for me if there’s mutual (though begrudging) respect and it doesn’t rely on major power imbalances. Make them evenly matched. Bully romances ≠ enemies-to-lovers, and I wish writers would stop conflating the two.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

behind every queer writer in high school is their emotional support english teacher

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@Nightshade386 I’m clinging to that future moment 🥲

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

been feeling a Certain Way lately (and by lately I mean years and years)

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and it's still true

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what is y’all most liked tweet?

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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that ancient greece/rome were somehow "queer paradises" just because some, VERY selective, same-gender relationships were socially acceptable. queer people have always existed through time. but so has queerphobia. different flavors, maybe, but similar power structures.

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Tell me about a common historical myth that makes your hackles rise. I don't mean actual disinformation like Holocaust denial; I mean stuff like "Napoleon was short!" For me it's probably "corsets were torture devices for the rich" and "romantic love is a very modern concept."

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@LondonSperry Daydreaming about swoony, romantic, heroic movers while I make my 40th trip up the stairs

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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so glad my teenage cringe resonated with you all. in exchange for exposing myself like this, please manifest that publishing buys mordred WIP, the BBC Merlin x Raven Cycle queer contemporary fantasy I’ve been working on

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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Watching Howl’s Moving Castle for the first time with my friends and like, I get it now. I get why we simp for the magical bird man.

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a pairing dynamic that will forever own my heart is “roguish but vulnerable thief x determined and stubborn secret princess” 😮‍💨

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@emmailene_ life is short. put colin morgan on your debit card literally what do you have to lose

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Wild how some readers will suspend their disbelief for dragons and magic, but draw the line at terms like "queer" or "lesbian" or "trans" in a fantasy world

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A lot of books called enemies-to-lovers are just bully romances, and I think it’s time we talk about that

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

10 months

you aren’t a bad writer, you just need some sleep. your friends aren’t sick of you, you just need some sleep. you don’t need to shelve your book, you just need some sleep.

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@lil_miss_books I call yellow text over a black highlight. I want everyone to suffer when they read my thoughts

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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I'm begging you, please stop making your characters fall in love. I swear, I come to “You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires”, I'm fucking done. Nobody in real life falls in love as much as writers seem to think they do. And that's my rant for today.

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2 years

this took off, which proves we’re all the main character and singular exception to the first draft rule 🫶

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Writing is such a silly activity. I create these fictional scenarios, I run into fictional roadblocks, I stress and panic that I can’t overcome them, I eventually do, and then I celebrate solving the problems that I ?? made for myself??

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Magic systems don’t need to be complicated. For example if you tell me a character is gay and has powers, that’s all the information I need to understand completely

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From time to time I like to remember that Tyra Banks published a YA Dystopian Fantasy novel called Modelland, and the prologue includes this absolute banger of a simile and then I feel better about my own writing

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Not every fantasy book needs stakes that span multiple continents. Like it's cool if that's what you like, but more localized stakes are just as engaging. Also, enjoying accessible fantasy doesn't make you less of a fantasy reader.

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What unpopular opinion can put you in this position??

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Your agent, editor, mentor, or reader didn't "take a risk" on you. They chose to invest their time because they believe in you and your story. It's a subtle mindset change, but a powerful one. You aren't a risk. You aren't a burden.

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2 years

I HAVE AN AGENT! 💫 Over the moon to announce I’ve signed with @AnnaliseErrico of @LadderbirdLit ! Annalise understands VESUVIUS, my queer YA Historical Fantasy, at its core, and she’s the best champion for my work in all its angsty, tender, romantic vulnerability.

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this is Hermes, and I adopted him this weekend 🧡🪽

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The librarian/archivist in me dies a little inside when characters put on gloves to handle old or rare books

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2 years

K, pretend you're 14 again. What main fandom were you in, what was your primary ship, which ~angsty~ song did you associate with them, and did you own merch? the people demand to know

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

10 months

Overheard a mom loudly insisting to her (crying) teenager at Waterstones yesterday that the kid needed to stop reading Heartstopper and switch to “real books” Parents: Do not ever do this. It’s the fastest way to kill a kid’s desire to read at all.

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i don’t want to find a mr. darcy, i want to BE a mr. darcy. i want to act weird and off-putting and radiate pitiful vibes at a beautiful woman until my pining can no longer be contained and she wrecks me

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

I don’t know what fantasy author writing a bard needs to hear this (and I say this lovingly), but: -lutes are plucked, not strummed -a lute is too fragile to be a weapon -lutes are delicate and fussy to tune -no seriously, stop weaponizing the lute

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

10 months

industry advice for new writers! -release your inhibitions -feel the rain on your skin -no one else can feel it for you -only you can let it in -today is where your book begins -the rest is still unwritten

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

1 year

@anamaewright Between me and a chiropractor maybe 😭

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@kalliasdemarco the way cashiers would ASK who these grown men on my debit card were 😭 and I endured that until I was TWENTY

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

IF YOU WANT THE REWARDS OF writing mutuals YOU MUST SUBMIT TO THE MORTIFYING ORDEAL OF talking about your projects on twitter

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You don’t have to like Titanic (1997), but put respect on her name for being THE perfect disaster movie simply because it does what most disaster movies are too afraid to: invest significant time in developing an emotional core (the romance and character arcs). In this essay I w

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2 years

Guess I should announce that I’m officially querying my queer YA historical fantasy, VESUVIUS! 🌋 Thrilled to be getting the book of my heart—and the one that connected me to Author Mentor Match—into the world. Wish me luck! 🫶

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I’m officially a Master of Library and Information Science! Thanks for everything, Aberystwyth 🎓💛

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writers keep saying they’re leaving twitter? yeah, hopefully to go write that novel they’re neglecting

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“The monarchy/government/religion is responsible for centuries of violent acts of oppression and exploits the common people to fund their lifestyle, but the villain said something KIND OF mean once, so she’s the one who should die” BE SERIOUS

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Gentle reminder that you’re queer enough to write your story. I’m sorry if this (recurring, incessant, frustrating) discourse makes you feel dysphoric or invalidated, the way it never fails to make me. Every time.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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this is approaching hit tweet status, so if you enjoy angsty gay books about the messy nonlinear process of healing from trauma and grief, that’s pretty much all I write 🌻

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Favorite hobby is going to a bookstore and saying “My friend wrote that” about any book by one of my Twitter mutuals

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Okay well this popped off for some reason, so if you love this trope and also like books about sad and angsty gay dudes, come listen to me scream about Kash and Ezra in desert WIP:

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

Hi #PitLight 👀 When ex-assassin Kash seizes another chance to kill his longtime mark, he’s roped into a magical coup threatening his desert home. Fine. He’s wrangled out of worse. But falling for Ezra, his sorcerer enemy? That wasn’t in his contract. Queer enemies-to-lovers☀️

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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Hi #PitLight 👀 When ex-assassin Kash seizes another chance to kill his longtime mark, he’s roped into a magical coup threatening his desert home. Fine. He’s wrangled out of worse. But falling for Ezra, his sorcerer enemy? That wasn’t in his contract. Queer enemies-to-lovers☀️

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I have a confession and it’s that I have no idea how anthologies work. Like how are you all finding each other. How do you get invited. How do you sell it

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“it doesn’t make sense how this character survived—“ the power of gay love literally saved him. how did you not understand

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2 years

In 2016, a friend left an actual letter on my doorstep just to tell me my writing was bad and I had no future as an author. It stopped me from writing for 2 years. There’s no lesson to be learned here, but. Girl, what was that about? 😭

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we’re going to see THIS percy jackson on our screens in only a few months

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@NariaNexis I commented on it, and a couple people actually told me I “missed the joke” 💀

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What's one of your writing goals for next year? Big and lofty or small and quiet, all are valid ✨

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@MsAGoldberg Yeah, I’m fully on my own this time 😃 friendship also ends the day you ask for help moving said books

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I adore when writers use spacing or line-breaks or punctuation unconventionally to amp up emotion or mood. You can tell they know the rules because of how they choose to break them. It’s so effective 🔥

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Agented authors who take the time to interact with/encourage non-agented writers are GEMS of humans, honestly ❤️😭 I love the writing community. My heart is so full rn.

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I think it’s really healthy for writers to have non-writing pastimes or hobbies, so… tell me about yours? What do you get up to when you aren’t torturing your characters? 👀

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What do you MEAN I can’t write yet another fantasy book where the gay enemies fall in love and one of them has long hair

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In the mood to read a book that will ruin my life, reduce me to a withered husk, force me to reevaluate all I’ve ever said or done, shatter my heart into shrapnel, and I don’t want to recover

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writing tip: if you want your fantasy characters to have cool catchphrases and mottos, remember that these should be meaningful in the context of your worldbuilding, and not just words thrown together for the sake of sounding cool

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The official X app tagline is: “Blaze your glory!”

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@birdienotabird and my MOM LET ME 😭

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Beta readers really are the backbone of this community, and when you find a good one, cling TIGHT to them. Some of the strongest supporters of my craft (and dearest writing friends!) were total strangers I met here who offered to read for me. And I can’t ever repay that debt 🥲🫶

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it’s sunday, it’s pouring rain, and I’m about to start reading a new book, so in honor of this perfect day: Hook me with the first line of your WIP 😌🤲

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DESERT WIP IS DONE! 🔥 A year and 87k later, I finished my queer enemies-to-lovers fantasy about indoctrination, desert ecology, and religious grief! THANK YOU for cheering this project on relentlessly. The love you’ve shown Kash and Ezra blows me away 😭🫶

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I adore author notes in the back of books that provide historical/cultural context, resources, thoughts on content warnings, or info about personal experiences behind the rep. It’s like a little love letter from the author to the reader.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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@megbontra Library student here—YES! If the library purchases it, that’s a sale for the author + if there’s enough demand, possibly multiple copies. And it helps spread word of mouth! ❤️

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Who did you write your WIP for, except make the "who" hyper-specific? desert WIP is for queer kids who love their grandma, collect rocks, and loathe the small town they grew up in (yet can't ever seem to leave behind)

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@_harjitsingh And the nerve to air that final episode on CHRISTMAS EVE. Lives were lost (mine)

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Queer characters who are soft ⭐️ Queer characters who’ve been dragged through the gutter and came out bloody and angry and are back with a vengeance to take down the institutions that harmed them ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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This is a humble request for more plus-size and fat men in books—ESPECIALLY in queer lit. Plus-size men are heroes and love interests and dynamic, complicated people too.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

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NT people, stop suggesting solutions to ADHD waiting mode. “Oh, just do something while you wait!” No. I’m already doing a task, and the task is Waiting. I Am Waiting. I cannot do anything else because I’m Busy Waiting. What part of that do you not understand

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If you live on the east coast, I don’t ever want to hear you complain about finding writing friends irl. I live in UTAH. You know who lives here? My nemesis Brando Sando and nothing else but tumbleweeds for miles.

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2 years

And if you showed me the line right BEFORE your main character and love interest’s first kiss (without showing the kiss)? What then? 👀

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Y’all be careful. I just saw a circle tweet by someone I don’t follow, just because I have mutuals who liked the tweet.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

10 months

If you want the rewards of being loved (having people care about your writing), you have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known (actually talking about and sharing your work with readers)

@chamomeriam

Miriam 🐸 🍉 (away)

10 months

alternatively, what’s a hard to swallow pill for writers/authors, in your experience? either about the process or the industry

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

1 year

@JillCorddry Best practice is to use clean, bare hands! Gloves can interfere with your ability to handle the delicate pages and usually lead to more tearing/ripping. Bare fingers let you manipulate the pages more precisely.

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2 years

Re-title your WIP in the format of “A ___ of ___ and ___” (you know the fantasy title staple)

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

10 months

It’s possible to have sympathy for your parents and still be angry over how they treated you. It’s okay to feel both. It’s okay to be angry. It’s okay if your feelings are complicated. It’s okay if you still want a relationship and it’s okay if you don’t. Hurt is complicated.

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

pitch me your book as “normalize (insert unhinged character behavior here)” i.e.: normalize risking it all for the most pathetic wet sandwich of a man, even though he’s your sworn enemy, just because he has long hair and cries

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

Give me one—JUST one, no context, no clarifying, I mean it 🔪—line of dialogue that you know will break your readers’ hearts. Let me feel the angst to get me in the mood to write my final chapter 😌

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

In the mood to be wounded, so show me that one line of dialogue in your wip that HURT you to write 👀🔪

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

2 years

My toxic trait as a historical fiction writer is thinking my characters from 1,943 years ago referencing memes from last week is peak comedy, even as my readers beg me to take them out

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

1 year

I (person with severe rejection sensitivity dysphoria who cries 4 times a day) really looked at my future and went, "You know what the perfect passion for me would be? What I should pour my whole life into? Writing 🙂"

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

1 year

What if we made family trees for our WIPs of the books/shows/games/music that either inspired it or relate to it? And we tagged them as #WIPtree ? And what if I already made one for Vesuvius? What then?

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

11 months

and yet we carry on

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@chamomeriam

Miriam 🐸 🍉 (away)

11 months

what’s the first tweet that comes up when you search “writing” on your profile? 👀♥️

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cass | VESUVIUS on goodreads🌋

1 year

Queer historical fiction hits so hard, like?? That’s ME on the page in an era I grew up learning hated me? That’s a character like me loving and being loved? We’ve always existed throughout history, but I’m so incredibly thankful our voices are being unburied now

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